Happy Birthday Anne

Anne Smithies
Happy Birthday Anne! A span of years agone Anne was our resident fine art quilter at our leap too summertime machine quilting retreats.
detail of Anne's 'mad bird'
 She is quirky too fun too taught us how to machine quilt birds...

Anne showing her beach hut technique
too beach huts

Anne trying out the Art Quilter frame at our summertime Retreat
Anne loved our Art Quilter frame because she could educate it upward similar an easel.

a felted scene from 1 of Anne's workshops
Anne has many talents likewise fine art quilting. She felts too industrial plant amongst drinking glass too paints too draws too nurtures other artists.

Chapel Gallery inwards Hawes, North Yorkshire
Anne's solid unit of measurement stumbled upon this renovated Methodist Chapel inwards North Yorkshire too realized that it was the perfect platform for all her many interests. It was a swell topographic point for her solid unit of measurement too!

Chapel Gallery an artist's haven too more!
 Well Anne emailed the other day. She had a committee for a large quilt too needed an upgrade to extend her existing frame. So nosotros sent her an upgrade too it arrived today, simply inwards fourth dimension for her birthday! Happy Birthday Anne! You've had quite an exciting year.

Follow the links below to grab upward amongst Anne and 
checkout the neat workshops too exhibitions at Chapel Gallery: 



Mad Bird

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